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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

"St.
Clements Island (Md) is the original landing place of European Settlers in search of
Religious Freedom. Father Andrew White, SJ, whose journal was found concerning
the trip, was among those on the two ships, the Ark and the Dove. 'For the
Catholics aboard the Ark and the Dove, it was to escape persecution and being
marginalized socially and economically.For the Protestants, it was to seek a better life and like their Catholic
shipmates, be open to opportunities the New World offered – opportunities that
made the risks worthwhile.'"

How
sadly ironic. Practicing, faithful Catholics and Protestants have
long been marginalized socially and are now even legally persecuted, just for believing
what we believe, for standing up for those beliefs in every aspect of
life.Would that happen to a Muslim in this country? No. Should it happen to anyone of any faith? No. Yet we practicing Catholics, Jews and Protestants are being told--by ObamaCare--that we have no choice but to allow *all* abortion-inducing drugs,
contraception and sterilization (e.g., tubal ligations) to be provided
and/or indirectly paid for (thus sanctioned) by our religious-based health institutions, when it is all
prohibited as against our religion except in cases of protecting
the mother's physical health and/or life:

So
if you are are advised by your OB/GYN to have a tubal ligation (say,
after the last child is born) for your HEALTH, then the Catholic Church
is fine with that, and the Catholic HOSPITAL can do this. But it goes
against the Catholic religion if it's just a wink-wink-nod-nod agreement
between doctor and patient to "say" that that's necessary, if it in
fact is not.

ObamaCare = destruction of freedom of religion in the United States Of America. Nothing less.

If you find that impossible to believe, it's
perhaps because you get at least some of your news from the Mainstream
Media and/or the likes of Bill Maher, Chris Matthews, Jon Stewart and
parodist Colbert.It could also be because you don't know much about what Catholics are supposed to really believe if they really are Catholics. Try this instead, from the Catholic Medical Association, aka "the horse's mouth", instead of those trying to marginalize Catholic doctors and other medical professionals:

Because President Obama’s HHS mandate defines abortion-causing drugs,
contraception, and sterilization for women as “preventive” services,
and demands full subsidy of their cost by all Americans:

Some Shiite groups, such as the Ismailis, do not
permit abortions to take place at all. In case of infringements of this law,
abortions before day 40 are penalized with a monetary fee. Other Shiite groups
such as the Zaydites allow abortions to be performed up to day 120, equating an
abortion up to this point with contraception.

...

Most of the Maliki jurists (legal scholars)
described abortion as completely forbidden. In their view, when the semen
settles in the womb, it is expected to develop into a living baby and it should
not be disturbed by anyone. According to Ibn Jawziyyah, when the womb has
retained the semen, it is not permitted for the husband and wife, or one of
them or the master of the slave-wife, to induce an abortion. After ensoulment,
however, abortion is prohibited absolutely and is akin to murder.

Ensoulment is generally considered to be after the first four months (120 days) of pregnancy :

[Catholic hospitals/centers] lead the sector in breast cancer screenings,
nutrition programs, trauma, geriatric services, and social work. In most of
these areas, other non-profits come close, but hospitals run by state and local
governments fall significantly off the pace. Where patients have trouble paying
for care, Catholic hospitals cover more of the costs. For instance, Catholic
Health Services in Florida provides free care to families below 200 percent of
federal poverty line, accepting Medicaid reimbursements as payment in full, and
caps costs at 20 percent of household income for families that fall between 200
percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty line.

Imagine the impact if these hospitals shut down,
discounting the other 400-plus health centers and 1,500 specialized homes that
the Catholic Church operates as part of its mission that would also disappear.
Thanks to the economic models of these hospitals, no one will rush to buy them.
One in six patients in the current system would have to vie for service in the
remaining system, which would have to absorb almost $100 billion in costs each
year to treat them. Over 120,000 beds would disappear from an already-stressed
system.

The poor and working class families that get
assistance from Catholic benefactors would end up having to pay more for their
care than they do under the current system. Rural patients would have to travel
farther for medical care, and services like social work and breast-cancer
screenings would fall to the less-efficient government-run institutions. That would
not only impact the poor and working class patients, but would create much
longer wait times for everyone else in the system. Finally, over a half-million
people employed by Catholic hospitals now would lose their jobs almost
overnight, which would have a big impact on the economy as well as on health
care.

I didn't realize that the Catholic Schools would have to close also, but I suppose it would be because they were forced to provide/pay for these prohibitions to our faith for their employees.All this reality shows either the supreme ignorance or the supreme arrogance of Obama. As Morrissey writes:

If the HHS mandate forces the Catholic Church to fund and facilitate
access to products and services they believe imperil souls, they will
apply [St.] Ignatius’ principle and stick with salvation — which is the entire
raison d’être of any religious organization. The implications
for public-sector spending and services is massive, and Obama may be
pushing all in with only a pair of jacks. Don’t count on the bishops to
blink first.

If the bishops do blink first, it will be the definitive destruction of religious liberty--for Catholics--in this country.Then, all of us are at risk, because once one founding principle is destroyed, none of the rest are safe either.

Isn't this how it all started in Soviet Russia, against the Catholics?

And isn't this how it all started in Nazi Germany, against the Jews and non-Nazi Catholics and others?

Here's how history repeats itself, in a nutshell:

"For his part, Obama naturally wanted to
bring the church into line with everything else in his scheme of things. He
knew he dare not simply eradicate it: that would not have been possible with
such an international organisation, and he would have lost many Christian
supporters had he tried to. His principal aim is to unify the country under a pro-universal-healthcare banner, and to come to an accommodation
with the Catholics."

Obama may be incompetent, but his handlers certainly are not. They don't really care if Catholics have their religious freedom, because they think we are all bigots, racists, fear-mongerers, etc. They willingly let the MainStream Media (MSM) repeat those themes ad nauseum. They and Obama may be well-intentioned about healthcare, but even the best of intentions cannot be allowed to destroy any of the freedoms this nation was founded to preserve, that we (then) acknowledged were "endowed by our Creator."

Obama doesn't need to eradicate the Catholic Church and its faithful, per se. He's already legalized persecution of us with ObamaCare. That's all it takes, he thinks, to make us "get out of the way."

By the way, that quote about Obama trying to get "accommodations" from the Catholics? It's not real. It is a rhetorical device to show how the destruction of religious freedom really is happening here in the U.S.

I just changed three, simple phrases. That's all, folks. You see, History is beginning to repeat itself again, here, now, and the question really is: Are you going to let it?

"For his part, Hitler naturally wanted to
bring the church into line with everything else in his scheme of things. He
knew he dare not simply eradicate it: that would not have been possible with
such an international organisation, and he would have lost many Christian
supporters had he tried to. His principal aim was to unify the German
Evangelical Church under a pro-Nazi banner, and to come to an accommodation
with the Catholics."

"After Abortion,...run by Emily Peterson and Annie Banno, two women who had abortions in the 1970s, ...tries to avoid the political tug-of-war that tends to come with this turf. They concentrate instead on discussing the troubling personal effects of abortion on the mothers." ~ Eric Scheske, Godspy contributing editor, in NC Register's "Signs of Life in the Blogosphere", 2/2006

"I would now like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion...[many are] aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and [do] not doubt that it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace...You will come to understand that nothing is definitively lost and you will also be able to ask forgiveness from your child..."

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